An item from Luxembourg in the “Museum of Broken Relationships” exhibition.

An item from Luxembourg in the “Museum of Broken Relationships” exhibition.

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Shampoo for intimate male hygiene, from the “Museum of Broken Relationships” exhibition.

Shampoo for intimate male hygiene, from the “Museum of Broken Relationships” exhibition.

Beauty only skin deep, so women are considering their history

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As to matters of mood, madness and mascara: At the Rafael the other night, Michael and Lucy Vogel went to see “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” a documentary about feminist history. Michael Vogel noticed that “the audience was made up entirely of women except for myself and one other gentleman.”

Meanwhile, dermatologist Seth Matarasso, who erases the lines and fills in the wrinkles of some of the most frown-free faces in town, was visited recently by Chelsea Handler and camera crew, an entourage of 10 or so people. They were there to shoot a segment on how Silicon Valley tech titans stay young, for Handler’s forthcoming Netflix series.

One San Francisco secret, according to the Handler team’s research, is having some work done at the doc’s Post Street office. The real triumph here is the power of persuasion. How could anyone have persuaded patients to be on camera while they were injected with magical substances in a campaign to turn back time?

Ambling along Market Street the other day, I came across the gallery run by Root Division, a nonprofit “that connects community and creativity,” and specifically, the “Museum of Broken Relationships” exhibition. It opened on Valentine’s Day and closes the last day of this month, so hurry.

This exhibition originally was created in Croatia for “remnants of failed relationships,” said a postcard I was handed when I entered. As it has traveled around the world, donors have supplied original objects. Take, for example, a copy of the book “I Can Make You Thin,” with a description of the overly controlling ex who had given it to his beloved.

Also, there was a hamburger dog toy, with the note, “His dog left more traces behind than him.” And a bottle of what the label says, in Italian, is an intimate hygiene shampoo for men. The museum tag notes, “After the relationship ended, my mother used it for polishing glass. She claims it’s absolutely great.”

Healing a hole in the heart may leave a scar, permanent damage. But there’s no cost, monetarily at least, to visit this free “museum” at 1059 Market St.

•After buying his wife a Valentine’s Day orchid at the East Bay Nursery in Berkeley, Jack Buckley noticed two messages printed on the receipt. “Cyndi was your cashier” and “Gardening makes me so happy I wet my plants!”

•Of the 23 million people who watched NBC’s broadcast of the “Saturday Night Live” 40th anniversary show on Feb. 15, Janice Hough is wondering how many “had to first find out what channel NBC is these days.”

•An exhibition of collages by former mayoral candidate Matt Gonzalez opens March 5 at the Dolby Chadwick Gallery on Post Street. The works, not large, are made from found bits of paper. The gallery at the same time is showing large collages by Ann Weber, who will be in conversation with artist Gonzalez on March 7. The subject, most likely, won’t be the bygone days of Gonzalez’s run against Gavin Newsom.

<bullet>AddaDada, on the coffee watch, forwards a pic of graffiti at Peet’s on Geary — “Cheer up. You’re made up of the same stuff as the stars” — and sends word of a lesbian coffee collective in Hawaii, Lez Beans Kona Coffee.

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I went to Wednesday’s opening of “Newsies” expecting to be bowled over by the dancing, sets and production values. Everyone in the theater, including me, was dazzled.

What surprised me, though, was the more-than-enthusiastic response to the show’s pro-union story, which is based on a real-life newsboy strike in the late 19th century. All the numbers that ended in expressions of defiance of the bosses, workers raising their fists in a macho salute — power to the people! you can’t scare me, I’m stickin’ with the union! — elicited huge cheers from first-nighters.

Disney Theatrical Productions mounted the touring show. According to Walt Disney biographer Richard Schickel, after a strike of Disney animators in the 1940s, Disney wrote a letter describing staffers who’d been fired as “the chip-on-the-shoulder boys and the world-owes-me-a-living lads.” Those are just the sort of “lads” who are heroes in the show.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 32 years ago, 20 percent of American workers were in unions. It’s down to 11 percent now. More often than not, the mention of unions (and I’m writing as a proud and grateful union member) is greeted with disdain. Audience response? Go figure.